“Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it. — Robert Pollard Copy Share Image
“In my heart, I love books, I love writing. I love the lines of letters on a page.” — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I am interested in everything, which sounds like a cop out. Having been a magazine writer, I do not have a beat. — Mina Kimes Copy Share Image
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
“Support our troops!” we cry, but I say, “Love our veterans!” And when he neglects church, take him cookies anyway. Sing him… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Have you been writing any personal experience articles lately?" the woman asked the writer. "No," replied the writer. "I've been busy having… — Ruth Peterman Copy Share Image
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery… — James Otis Copy Share Image
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable. Even more remarkably, this… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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